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Tyrone Power
(same as Frederick Tyrone Power and Tyrone Power Sr.)

Born 2 May 1869 in London, England, United Kingdom as Frederick Tyrone Edmond Power.
Died 23 December 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA, of heart failure.

Uncle of actor Crane Wilbur.

Married Edith Crane, 19 September 1898; until Edith’s death, 3 January 1912.
Married actress Mrs. Tyrone Power, 10 June, 1912; divorced 1920;
son Tyrone Edmond Power Jr. (actor Tyrone Power), born 5 May 1914; daughter, Anne Power, born 25 August 1915.
Married Bertha Knight, 17 February 1921; until Bertha’s death, 22 December 1927.
Grandfather of actress Romina Power, actress Taryn Power and actor Tyrone Power Jr.

Tyrone Power was the grandson of 19th century Irish actor Tyrone Power, who was the first of three generations of stage and film actors to bear the name. Power’s family emigrated to the United States in the 1800s and Tyrone made his acting debut in 1886. Power toured the world in the late 1800s and into the 1900s with his troupe.

Power’s film work began in 1914 for Famous Players Film Company. Throughout the remainder of the decade, Power appeared in films for Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated (1915-1916), The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated (1916) directed by Lois Weber, Nevada Motion Picture Corporation (1917) and Marine Film Company (1917).

After World War I, Power returned to film work as an independent actor for Adanac Producing Company (1920), D.W. Griffith, Incorporated (1921) directed by D.W. Griffith, Ziegfeld Cinema Corporation (1921) and Fox Film Corporation (1921). As his career continued in the 1920s, Power appeared in more films as a major supporting character than as a star mainly for smaller, independent producers and appeared in films produced by Inspiration Pictures, Incorporated (1923), Betty Blythe Productions (1923), B.F. Zeidman Productions (1923), Pyramid Pictures, Incorporated (1923), Daniel Carson Goodman Productions (1923), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1923), Pilgrim Pictures (1924), John McKeown (1924), Cosmopolitan Productions (1924), Eastern Productions, Incorporated (1924), Rayart Pictures Corporation (1924), Victor H. Halperin Productions (1924), Marlborough Productions (1924), Famous Players-Lasky Corporation (1924-1925), Universal Pictures Corporation (1925), Mrs. Wallace Reid Productions (1925), Cinema Corporation of America (1925), Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated (1926), Chadwick Pictures Corporation (1926), Tiffany Productions, Incorporated (1926) and Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation (1926). Several of Power’s silent era films have survived and are available for viewing today on home video.

Tyrone Power appeared in one released sound film, John Wayne’s first starring feature film, The Big Trail (1930) for Fox Film Corporation. During the production of his second sound film, The Miracle Man (1931), Tyrone Power passed away at home of a heart attack in the arms of his son, future box office idol Tyrone Power.

References: Website-IMDb.